Introduction to Editorial Board Members: Professor Matthew V. Tirrell

Professor Matthew Tirrell is the founding Pritzker Director of the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. He received a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University, and he received a PhD in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts. Prof. Tirrell began his academic career at the University of Minnesota in Chemical Engineering where he earned the Shell Distinguished Chair in Chemical Engineering and established himself as a leader in the study of the polymer interfaces, adhesion, and self-assembly. In the early 1990s, he was named the Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Minnesota and later held the Earl E. Bakken Chair of Bio-